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To APPROPIN'QUATE, v. n. [appropinqno , Lat.] To 
draw nigh unto; to approach. 
To APPROPIN'QUE, v. n. [appropinquo , I.at.] To ap¬ 
proach ; to draw near to. A ludicrous word : 
The clotted blood within my hole, 
That from my wounded body flows, 
With mortal crilis doth portend 
My days to appropinque an end. Hudibras. 
APPRO TRIABLE, adj. That which may be appro¬ 
priated; that which may be reflrained to lomething par¬ 
ticular. 
APPROPR 1 A'RE COMMU'NIAM, is to approve 
or to appropriate and inclofe part of a common to a man’s 
own feparate ufe ; and this may be done either by the lord 
of the manor, or by a tenant with the lord’s permiflion; 
provided they leave lufficient common for the rdf of the 
tenants. 
To APPRO'PRIATE, v. a. \_approprier , Fr. approprio, 
low Lat.] To confign to fome particular ufe or perfon.— 
Marks of honour are appropriated to the magiftrate, that 
he might be invited to reverence jultice. Atterbury.— To 
claim or exercife; to take to himfelf by an exclufive right. 
—Why fltould people engrofs and appropriate the common 
benefits of fire, air, and water, to themlelves? VEflrange. 
—To make peculiar to lomething; to annex by combina¬ 
tion.—We, by degrees, get ideas and names, and learn 
their appropriated connexion one with another. Locke. — 
In law, to alienate a benefice. 
APPRO'PRIATE, adj. Peculiar; configned to fome 
particular ufe or perfon ; belonging peculiarly.—The hea¬ 
thens theinlelves had an apprehenlion of the neceffity of 
fome appropriate ads of divine worlhip. Stilling fleet. 
APPROPRIATION,/. The application of lomething 
to a particular purpofe. The claim of any thing as pe¬ 
culiar. The fixing a particular lignification to a word. 
Appropriation, in law, is the annexing of a benefice 
to the proper and perpetual ufe of fome religious houfe, 
foilhopric, college, or fpiritual perfon, to enjoy for ever. 
To make an appropriation, the king’s licence was to be 
obtained in chancery, and alfo the confent of the ordinary, 
patron, and incumbent. And in this manner the religious 
houfes of old time became polfelfed of that vail number 
of advowfons, which they had in this kingdom; when 
thefe churches, after the dilfolution of the monafteries, 
came into lay hands, the church fo polfefled by a layman 
was called an impropriation, and himfelf the impropriator. 
But the words appropriation and impropriation are often con¬ 
founded and ufed for each other. 
The contrivance of appropriations feems to have fprung 
from the policy of the monaftic orders, who have never 
been deficient in fubtle inventions for the increafe of their 
own power and emoluments. At the firft eftablifhment of 
parochial clergy, the tithes of the parilh were diftributed in 
a four-fold divilion ; one for the ufe of the bifhop, another 
for maintaining the fabric of the church, a third for the 
poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent. When 
She fees of the bilhops became otherwife amply endowed, 
they were prohibited from demanding their ufual fhare of 
thefe tithes, and the divilion was into three parts only. 
And hence it was inferred by the monafteries, that a fmall 
part was fufficient for the officiating prieft, and that the 
remainder might well be applied to the ufe of their own 
fraternities, (the endowment of which was conftrued to be 
a work of the moft exalted piety,) fubjeft to the burden of 
repairing the church and providing for its conftant fupply. 
And therefore they begged and bought, for malfes and 
obits, and fometimes even for money, all the advowfons 
within their reach, and then appropriated the benefices to 
the ufe of their own corporation. The appropriators and 
their fuccelfors, being perpetual parfons of the church, muft 
fue and be fued, in all matters concerning the rights of the 
church, by the name of parfons. 
This appropriation may be fevered, and the church be¬ 
come difappropriate, two ways; as, firft, if the patron or 
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appropriator prefents a clerk, who is inftituted and indudfed 
to the parfonage : or the incumbent.fo inftituted and in¬ 
duced is to all intents and purpoles a complete parfon; 
and the appropriation, being once fevered, can never be 
re-united again, unlefs by a repetition of the fame folem- 
nities. And, when the clerk fo prefented is diftindt from 
the vicar, the redfory thus veiled in him becomes what is 
called a flne-cure ; becaufe he hath no cure of fouls, having 
a vicar under him to whom that cure is committed. Alfo, 
if the corporation which has the appropriation is dilfolved, 
the parfonage becomes difappropriate at common law r : be¬ 
caufe the perpetuity of perlon is gone, which is necelfary 
to fupport the appropriation. 
In this manner, and fubjedf to thefe conditions, may ap¬ 
propriations be made at this day: and thus were moft if 
not all of the appropriations at prefent exifting originally 
made; being annexed to bifhoprics, prebends, religious 
houfes, nay, even to nunneries, and certain military orders, 
all of which were fpiritual corporations. At the diflolu- 
tion of monafteries, by ftatutes 27 Hen. VIII. c. 28. and 
31, c. 13. the appropriations of feveral parfonages, which 
belonged to thole relpedlive religious houfes (amounting 
to more than one-third of all the parilhes in England), 
would have been by the rules of the common law difap- 
proprialed; had not a claufe in thofe ftatutes intervened, 
to give them to the king in as ample a manner as the abbots, 
&c. formerly held the fame at the time of their dilfolution. 
This, though perhaps fcarcely dcfenfible, was not without 
example : for the fame was done in former reigns, when 
the alien priories (that is, Inch as were filled by foreigners 
only) were dilfolved and given to the crown. And from 
thefe two roots have fprung all the lay-appropriations or 
fecular parfonages which we now fee in the kingdom ; they 
having been afterwards granted out from time to time by 
the crown. 
Appropriation, in the animal economy, that adtion 
of the natural heat or vital flame, by which the fluids are 
fo united with the folids of our bodies, as to enable them 
to perform their fundtions. Medicines are laid to be ap¬ 
propriated, which are believed to be deftined for a particu¬ 
lar part of the body. 
APPROPRIA'TOR,/ He that is polfelfed of an ap¬ 
propriated benefice.—Thefe appropriators , by reafon of 
their perpetuities, are accounted owners of the fee fimple; 
and therefore are called proprietors. Ayliffe. 
APPRO'VABLE, adj. That which merits approbation. 
—The folid reafon, or confirmed experience, of any men, is 
very approvable in what profeliion foever. Broum. 
APPRO'VAL,/. Approbation: a word rarely found. 
—There is a cenfor of juftice and manners, without whole 
approval no capital fentences are to be executed. Temple. 
APPRO'VANCE, /. Approbation: a word not much 
ufed.—A man of his learning Ihould not fo lightly have 
been carried away with old wives’ tales from approvance of 
his own reafon. Spenfer. 
To A PPRO'VE, v. a. \_approuver, Fr. approbo. Let.] To 
like; to be pleafed with.—There can be nothing polfibly 
evil which God approvetk, and that lie approveth much more 
than he doth command. Hooker. —To exprefs liking. T» 
prove; to fhew; tojuftify: 
In religion, 
What damned error, but fome fober brow 
Will blefs it, and approve it with a text? Shakfpeare. 
—Refer all the actions of this fhort life to that ftate which 
will never end; and this will approve itfelf to be wifdom 
to the laft, whatever the world judge of it now. TillotJon. 
.—To experience. Not in ufe: 
Oh! ’tis the curfe in love, and ftill approv'd. 
When women cannot love, w here they’re belov’d. 
Shahefpeare. 
To make, or fhow, to be worthy of approbation. It has 
of before the object, when it fignifies to be pleafed, but may 
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